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Calico
Traditional Old-Time, Breakdown. Mississippi, South-central Kentucky. ARTIST: fiddler Stephen B. Tucker CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Early 1900’s (fiddler Stephen B. Tucker in 1939) OTHER NAMES: "Johnson Gals" (Leake County Revelers); "Want To Go To A Meeting and Got No Shoes" (Frank and Mollie Kittrel); Johnson Gal (IUMA’s Hobo Pie) RECORDING INFO: Kittrell, Frank. Great Big Yam Potatoes. Anglo-American Fiddle Music from Mississippi (Want to go to Meeting and Got No Shoes) Southern Culture AH002, LP (1985), cut# 15 (Want to go to Meeting and Got No Shoes). IUMA’s Hobo Pie (Johnson Gal) Block, Allan. Alive and Well and Fiddling, (Johnson Gals) Living Folk LFR 104, LP (197?), cut# 11; Gaster, Marvin. Uncle Henry's Favorites, Rounder 0382, CD (1996), cut#21; Leake County Revelers. Traditional Fiddle Music of Mississippi, Vol. 2, County 529, LP (1975), cut# 2; Leake County Revelers. Ballads and Breakdowns of the Golden Era, Columbia CS 9660, LP (196?), cut#B.01; Plank Road String Band. Plank Road String Band, Carryon, LP (1976), cut#A.03. SOURCES: Traditional Music in America, Folklore Associates, Bk (1940/1965), p 34a (Johnson Gals); A tune by this name was learned by south-central Kentucky African-American fiddler Jim Bowles (b. 1903) from local musicians, although his cross-tuned version was supposedly not widely known outside his area.(Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc). NOTES: "G Major. The 'Calico' fiddle tuning, or AEAC#, was so-called because it is employed in this piece." (Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc). The lyrics here also appear in the Leake County Revelers version of “Johnson Gals” which have become the standard version. (See: the Pennsylvania roots group, IUMA’s Hobo Pie, on the web.) The lyrics below (from Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc) were recorded by Herbert Halpert for the Library of Congress from the playing of Lauderville County, Mississippi, fiddler Stephen B. Tucker in 1939. The rhyme sung to the tune goes: LYRICS: Don't care where in the world I go, Can't get around for the calico. | |
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